Laelius, Laurentius

Laelius, Laurentius a Lutheran minister of Germany, was born in Franconia, April 15, 1572. He studied at Jena and Wittenberg, was in 1599 deacon, and attended the colloquy at Ratisbon in 1601; in 1602 he was rector at Heilbronn, in 1605 first preacher at Onolzbach, and died July 26, 1634. He wrote, Criterium Fidei: Index Haeresium Conitroversiarum et Schismatum, etc.: Exegesis Articuli de Persona et Officio Christi Bellarnino Opposita.. See Freher, Theatrum Eruditorum; Witte, Diarium Biogaphicum; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)